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    64‚000 people die of drug overdoses per year. Huxley’s society “The World State” is a dystopian society‚ yes the men and women that don’t partake in controlling the society seem to be happy in what they consider a utopia‚ but the people who do control “The World State” like the world controller Mustapha Mond and people like John The Savage‚ are victims of the true nature of reality. In the novel “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley‚ some of the fantasies that are now a reality in our society include

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    Huxley was born on July 26‚ 1894‚ he came from a wealthy known family. However Huxley had a rough childhood he grew up thinking he was different‚ people treated him like he was different‚ he was odd of the group. However it wasn’t that he was different it was just that he was intelligent well at least for his age‚ he was seen as Superior‚ his mind was more developed than anyone his age. Growing up Huxley was loved by many due to his intelligence. Huxley felt it was his obligation to fight the idea

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    To my fellow year 12 students‚ at this stage you are all studying ‘Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World’ (BNW) for the elective Representing People and Politics. Today I welcome you to this HSC Study Day‚ explaining to you all‚ why this text is suitable for Module C. The novel definitely explores ramifications of future developments in science and technology and its misuse within in humanity‚ and it displays this notion through the shifting perspectives of certain characters. Here on one hand you have

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    Brave New World Essay Brave New World is a novel written in the early 1930’s about a Utopian society where everyone lives in peace and harmony with each other and with themselves. However we may not perceive it as such as the author of the novel‚ Aldous Huxley‚ has used this Utopia to describe a Dystopia he feels will soon be reflective of our own world. He expresses that this New World is nothing but flawed as this peace and harmony is only an illusion‚ being achieved by the blissful state of

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    Bibliography 19‚ November 2010 Brave New World Aeschliman‚ M.D. "Why Shakespeare Was Not a Relativist and Why It Matters Now." _Journal of Education_ (Boston University) 180.3 (1998): 57-66. In "Brave New World"‚ Aldous Huxley ’s increasingly significant orgy satire‚ he depicted the works of Shakespeare as the last repository of humanity (Aeschliman 57). Today self-reliance in the world of market capitalism has made human decency weaken (59). For Shakespeare this world of ’self-reliant ’ relativism

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    Brave New World     Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a satire showing the need for individualism‚ and the problems of a controlling society. Helmholtz Watson lives in a world where individualism is practically absent and forgotten. However‚ this does not stop him from being an individual thinker and rebel. Watson is smarter than everyone else‚ too smart for his peers liking. This‚ plus his refusal to follow the social “norms” make him an outsider. He creates the rift between himself and society

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    titled Antic Hay‚ Those Barren Leaves‚ and Point‚ Counter Point. They all‚ just like his book Crome‚ centered around modern or advanced society and the usual moral dilemmas that follow suet with it. He approached the ideas in his writes with his common satire aspect on life. His time in Italy also allowed him to visit and form a close relation with his friend D. H. Lawrance that was on a pilgrimage across the globe at the time. Yet the most important novel he wrote during his stay in Italy happen in 1931

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    In Adolph Huxley’s novel Brave New World‚ citizens allow a mood-altering drug called ‘soma’ influence their day-to-day actions. Much like modern mood-altering drugs‚ soma is used to control any emotions deemed different from societal expectations. In the realm of Brave New World‚ this includes sadness‚ grief‚ and loneliness. Characters in the novel have been conditioned to take soma whenever they feel such emotions‚ forcing them into a state of euphoric bliss. This type of dependency differs greatly

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    ‘’An Marxist study of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley” Alisha Ghosh QD Leavis’ essay mentions a statistic‚ “The investigation made in 1924 into the stocks and issues of urban libraries revealed that while they had 63% of non-fiction works on an average to 37% of fiction‚ only 22% of non-fiction is issued in comparison 78% of fiction.” This clearly ascertains the fact that a commodity that is in demand at a particular point of time is determined by the class or group that is ‘ruling’ or is in

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    society is the accumulation of this human nature applied to a large group of people. In Brave New World‚ Aldous Huxley depicts a civilization where problems can be expunged from society if personal freedom is eliminated. With a homogenized religion dealing with drugs and sex forced upon the citizens‚ their human nature is simplified into a pure and stable being. It is clear that‚ even if there are some flaws in this world‚ it is a successful community. There are

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